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March 6, 2017

At Oklahoma Capitol, Muslim Students Asked if They Beat Their Wives
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In Oklahoma, three Muslim students were asked to fill out an
Islamophobic questionnaire while trying to meet with an Oklahoma
lawmaker at the State Capitol last Thursday. The Council on
American-Islamic Relations says questions reflected intentionally
distorted ideas about Islam, including one that read "The Koran, the
sunna of Mohammed and Sharia Law of all schools say that the husband can
beat his wife. Do you beat your wife?" The students were seeking to meet
with Oklahoma state Representative John Bennett, who in 2014 called
Islam a "cancer in our nation that needs to be cut out."


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